So long story short i managed to get 6 others to try FFXIV for the first time,.. and for a few it's their first MMO as well... some are from Vizzed and some are not... these people include

pacman1755 :
Belinni :
styrofoamboots :
Xteven Xavier: 
soxfan849 :
and special guest Nicki

But yeah... if i feel like keeping this updated i shall.... but all there is to say is that ... after a painful 2 1/2 hours of getting people the right versions of the game (region issues) we finally all was on the road to starting... All that really has happened then is that we've all made our characters

we have 2 tanks, 1 healer, and 4 dps.... at the moment anyways

let's all hope they don't get bored or irritated instantly

I am honestly interested in how this will turn out. Please, keep updating this as things happen.

DAY ONE:

Current Levels:

Tyrian Delirium : = 20 Thaumauturge, 15 Archer
Belinni : = 19 ThaumaTurge, 10 Conjurer
Nicki = 18 Conjurer
pacman1755 : = 17 Lancer
xteven xavier: = 17 Gladiator, 7 conjurer
soxfan849 : = 9 archer
styro: = Currently not logged on yet

So currently people are honestly getting used to the game... Some have stated that they love the music within the game and the references it makes to other final fantasy games.. Also there's been a lot less confusion than i thought there would be!, There's been little hiccups and such but honestly 50% of the time it's taken about a minute to fix if not less. Honestly i thought someone would have stopped playing especially when we've probably played 50+ hours as a group within a day.... which is pretty insane... 

Current Objectives:
Tyrian Delirium : Get to level 25 and start working on getting the means and funds to form a Guild/Clan (known as a Free company in game).. to do so i'll need to get 25 THM

As for the others i think it's just a case of leveling up...  until they reach the desired levels needed for the higher rank classes

As for group objectives.. It'll be cool when we get to tackle our first dungeon together... I'm currently the only one whose got far enough in the main story to face them... but besides sox i think the others are really close to it... 

If anyone has any questions that'd be cool, and if any of the actual players want to chip in their opinions/experiences that'd be cool too.

Tyrian Delirium : This is cool. I remember watching a friend play that, it's pretty cool. We should do a similar thing with other games, like the late, great, thankfully private server'd Grand Chase. God it's good. I grew up with it and I am so happy to have it back.

Is this still ongoing? When I got the game awhile back I loved every second of it until I lost Internet and could no longer play. Even if I can't enjoy it, it would be nice to at least hear of others experiences playing. I thought mostly everything in the game was set up extremely well, and if you guys have a set team to begin with, it should make it even more smooth than most people who play alone like I did.

Mynamescox44 : Yes it's still ongoing, The group took a hiatus for about a month because of Education and Computer issues but we're mostly all still playing... I won't list all the classes people have levelled up because that'd be a nightmare.. so i'll just list ones above 30 which is the half way mark if you have the expansion
 (max level 60)

Tyrian Delirium : 58 Black mage, Mining 30... I've got a the 3 expansion skills as well but they start at 30 anyways lol... 
pacman1755 : 53 Dragoon
Xteven Xavier: 38 Paladin
Belinni : 53 Scholar/Summoner and 30 Black Mage
Symphonic : 55 Scholar/summoner, 54 mining, 53 fishing, 50 botany and 34 Black mage.. along with the three new skills all at 30... (was lazy and ported over his character )
soxfan849 :  17 archer, been busy at that work thing


and 3 other people not registered to the site
nicki 54 scholar and 41 white mage
Fister 59 Dark Knight, 51 Ninja
Kitty 50 bard, 29 fishing.. because its nearly 30
Jinxy 26 archery.. slowly levelling due to uni and becoming a games developer lol

That's awesome. Are you guys doing end-game dungeons at this point or still working your way up? Seeing your levels, it would seem as if at the minimum some of the easier end-game material may be achievable. I really have no idea what anything is like past lvl 30 - 35 (for the main combat skill), as that's where I got cut off, but I can only imagine you guys are kicking butt and taking names lol.

Mynamescox44 : We#re not really at end "end" game stuff.. but most are on the way to completing the story at least... we've done a lot of the "hard" ranked dungeons and such.. we dont really have the gear for extreme yet... but when we do it'll be a fun time lol.... 

Level 30 White Mage actually. I did it for the horse.

Tyri, have you played FF14 before the Realm Reborn changes?
I heard it was vastly improved, but I would like to know how you felt about them or possibly some of the other people that replied here if they played before RR.

Vanelan : Sadly I did not, However I've heard a great deal from people that had in game and such. 

To put simply nearly every aspect of the game was improved essentially. The game just wasn't designed very well and Squenix knew they had pretty much released a bad game. It's aesthetics were pretty ugly and somewhat confusing as well. 

I'm sorry i can't really write more than this. But there's very few people indeed that prefer the game before ARR